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Re: Topband: ARRL 160

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Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL 160
From: W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu@w0mu.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 12:55:48 -0700
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If you remove the line completely the other guy gets a busted QSO! You put an X in front of the line. Not sure about the exact formatting.



On 12/5/2016 12:25 PM, Ward Silver wrote:
If the web upload app for log submission finds something in a QSO: line it can't deal with...

> The ARRL submission AP tells you to correct the mistakes rather than remove or unclaim them and that is NOT RIGHT!

Point of clarification - the app does not really know anything about a particular call. It just knows that the data it found in what it thought was a call sign field did not look like a call sign. (You would get a similar error if the Sent Call data is bad or the RST isn't an RST.) It is up to the log submitter as to what to do about that. If the QSO: line is just mis-formatted, rearranging the information to satisfy the Cabrillo format is perfectly OK. If the call sign is busted (from typo, mis-copy, or whatever), my suggestion would be to remove the line entirely. Same thing if the the section abbreviation is not valid.

73, Ward N0AX
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